Wirtgen road planer; but what model?

[Holger]

(the pictures appearing in reverse order in preview has caught me out before with the captions as well )

Only in the preview?
Have to check that!

[v8detroit]

Calling all Wirtgen/road planer enthusiasts!


URL of the original image: http://image85.webshots.com/85/0/28/44/2570028440056294567lyiPYl_fs.jpg

Just snapped this one this morning. It seems quite regular here to paint over anything with the model number. I'm sure its a conspiracy to keep us people who have an interest in machinery guessing at what we're looking at.

Anyway; its not a huge machine by any standards. The traffic cones are a decent scale to size it up against I suppose.

Any ideas?

Best regards

Gavin

looks like a w2200 or w2100,a w2100 will fit on a 3 axel stepframe the w2200 you need a 4 axel this is a w2000 we move for o`hara bros surfacing the w2100 is a big old tool when you are trying to drag it around tight london roads hard on tyres !!!!!!!

[pbws1226]

Hi I work as fitter for NRP the machine you ask about is a w2200

[Poggen11]

Hi new to the site just having a look around,I no this is a old post but this planer is a Wirtgen w2200. I drive machines like this for another company in the south of england.

[pbws1226]

Hi it's a W2200 I work as a planer fitter for nrp

[pbws1226]

Calling all Wirtgen/road planer enthusiasts!


URL of the original image: http://image85.webshots.com/85/0/28/44/2570028440056294567lyiPYl_fs.jpg

Just snapped this one this morning. It seems quite regular here to paint over anything with the model number. I'm sure its a conspiracy to keep us people who have an interest in machinery guessing at what we're looking at.

Anyway; its not a huge machine by any standards. The traffic cones are a decent scale to size it up against I suppose.

Any ideas?

Best regards

Gavin

Hi I work as a planer fitter for nrp. the machine in your picture is actually a W2200 and is still goiing strong
regards Paul

[pbws1226]

Hi I'm a planner fitter for NRP it is a W2200

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Hi I'm a planner fitter for NRP it is a W2200

Thanks for the answer Paul

I thought that it is a pretty big machine, do they come bigger, what sort of depth could that cut?

I used to work with a Bitelli planer over 20 years ago similar to this
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dseWFxiPydc[/video]
You got any photo's of any planing kit to add?
Richard

[Hutch]

Hi Richard
Have a look at the Roadtec website they have planers that will cut up to 7 metres wide with extensions to the cutting drum and from what ive been told their first planer was based on the design of a British planer called a Simec that was made in Cramlington near Newcastle, of which they bought the manufacturing rights.Only two were built in Britain,one being sold to the original Power Plane and the other to a customer in America.They were in someways ahead of their time but suffered from reliability problems and lack of development this partly caused the demise of Power Plane and along with most of Power Planes kit the Simec ended up being owned by TE Beach.

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Hi Richard
Have a look at the Roadtec website they have planers that will cut up to 7 metres wide with extensions to the cutting drum and from what ive been told their first planer was based on the design of a British planer called a Simec that was made in Cramlington near Newcastle, of which they bought the manufacturing rights.Only two were built in Britain,one being sold to the original Power Plane and the other to a customer in America.They were in someways ahead of their time but suffered from reliability problems and lack of development this partly caused the demise of Power Plane and along with most of Power Planes kit the Simec ended up being owned by TE Beach.

Hi Paul,
There's some beasties on the Roadtec site, thanks for the info. I wouldnt want the job of changing the picks on a 7m drum too often, must cost a fortune to
They certainly make a varied selection of kit, does any of it get used in the UK ?